Office Depot, Inc. launched BizBox in November 2017 on the MyBizBox.com domain name.

Almost exactly 1 month to the day, Office Depot fixes a launch mistake and upgrades its domain name for the newly launched business service platform BizBox and acquires BizBox.com.

Office Depot announced BizBox on November 7, 2017 and used the second rate domain name MyBizBox.com, which it also acquired in August 2017 from its past owner for around $2,000.

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Wisconsin based furniture manufacture and retailer, Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. has purchased the premium generic domain name Ashley.com according to whois records.

The Ashley.com domain name was long owned by a company called Ashley Consulting Group Inc. out of Ontario, Canada but appeared to be listed for sale around September 29, 2014 using the Uniregistry system. The domain remained for sale for the past 3 years, with whois moving to privacy around June 2016. The domain name did change registrars … Read the rest

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FLIR Systems, Inc. acquires Lorex.com domain name in a domain upgrade from LorexTechnology.com

FLIR Systems, Inc. offers a popular security camera brand called Lorex by FLIR and is currently using the domain name LorexTechnology.com but the company has acquired the exact match domain name Lorex.com from Veeco Instruments.

Based on whois history records, it appears the transaction took place around April 2017.

Veeco acquired Lorex Industries in May 2011, who owned the Lorex.com domain name.

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Wagz Inc. acquires new domain name Wagz.com and signs licensing deal with Black+Decker

Wagz.com, a domain name continuously registered since February 13, 1999 has a new owner, Wagz, Inc.  Wagz is a fairly new smart pet brand offering a connected smart collar currently, with a smart feeder and smart dog door in the works.

The smart Wagz collar is a tracker, virtual fencing, health monitoring device and more.

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